Help with employer and childcare vouchers?

buel10

Hi all.
I’ve asked my employer for help with childcare vouchers as I’m not sure what I need to do.
They replied asking if I had ‘completed the on-line application directly with Computer Share Voucher Scheme?’

According to a site I have been looking at, it says ‘To join your employer's Childcare Vouchers scheme you first of all need to complete a salary sacrifice agreement. After your agreement has been submitted to your employer, they will reduce your salary by the requested amount and arrange for vouchers to be provided to you.‘

Is my employer correct with what they are stating, please?

Diamandis

You just need to ask your employer for their ID then you sign up online.

sheramber

https://myaccount.computersharevoucherservices.com/Parent/ParentRegistration.aspx

buel10

Hi and thank you for this!
Please can I check something - so long as I register and choose any amount (I was thinking £20 because we won't need the vouchers until October), I can always increase the amount at a later date?

Paparika

Yes you can.

The orders for March are almost done, some employers have already closed their orders for March. BUT

The options are that Computershare can ask your employer if they would mind raising an additional order, or if the order is still open would they add you on.

You need to have a scheme id (computershare can find it for you if you can't get that from your employer)
Your payrol id / employee id
National Insurance number
You will also need to know your gross annual salary or have the latest payslip with you when you register online or call Computershare.


If you are a basic tax payer you can claim up to £243.
The minimum amount you could choose is £20 or lower if your employer allows (some do)

Make sure you ask about your employers cut off dates. So as and when you raise or lower the voucher amount, you do it before the cut off dates to have it for that month.

buel10

Thank you so much for that!

One query - the website that my employer supplied me with is https://www.computershare.com and not https://myaccount.computersharevoucherservices.com/Parent/ParentRegistration.aspx

What is the difference, please?

Paparika

https://myaccount.computersharevoucherservices.com/Parent/ParentRegistration.aspx

this is the website to register, your employer obviously was not paying attention when giving you the website. Did they give you the scheme id number? if yes proceed with online registration.

If not give computershare a call. open 8am - 6.30pm
the lines are busy, but do hang in there.

So a little side note, you need to enter an email address, its so you can be notified when your vouchers have been created, it's to prompt you to pay your carer or just a heads up that the vouchers are there if you are saving them.

All online emails, gmail, googlemail, hotmail, live etc etc all put these emails in the spam/junkmail folder so you need to mark these emails as safe, not spam or phishing.